Natural Infrastructure definition

Natural Infrastructure means the preservation and/or restoration of ecological systems, or utilization of engineered systems that use ecological processes, to increase resiliency to climate change and/or manage other environmental problems. Some examples relative to AHSC could include street trees and greenspace for water catchment, infiltration and surface cooling; water treatment facilities that utilize ecologically functioning wetlands; flood mitigation systems that utilize the natural floodplain and stable shorelines used in tandem with constructed flood barriers.
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Natural Infrastructure means infrastructure that
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Natural Infrastructure. ’ means infrastructure
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Examples of Natural Infrastructure in a sentence

  • Through 2019, NIWS developed analysis of critical bottlenecks and policy recommendations that helped to focus policy makers during the National Forum on Natural Infrastructure on specific opportunities to improve investments in natural infrastructure, and which we also contributed to the OECD Water Policy and Governance Dialogues.

  • This PIP will be designed by one of the groups from the 'Virtual course in the Identification and Development of Public Investment Projects in Natural Infrastructure for the recovery of water regulation ecosystem services' (see 4.1.2) formed by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (Anglo American), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (Torata District Municipality) and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (EPS Moquegua).

  • The opportunity to accelerate public investment in natural infrastructure through IOARR was one of several solutions highlighted by NIWS at the National Forum on Natural Infrastructure held in November 2019, where Minister of Environment ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ committed to finalizing the guidelines and recognized the urgency of acting decisively to protect and restore ecosystems that play a critical role in Peru’s water security and resilience to climate change.

  • Gender considerations have also been included in course content for the Virtual Course on Investments in Natural Infrastructure developed with ENAP (see Section 4.1).

  • We had several good conversations with representatives of both during the National Forum on Natural Infrastructure in November.


More Definitions of Natural Infrastructure

Natural Infrastructure means using a natural form and ecosystem function to restore or augment a project’s intended water quality benefits.
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Natural Infrastructure means the use of naturally occurring resources or engineered use of natural resources, to provide adaptation or mitigation services to the gradual and/or sudden impacts of climate change or natural hazards.
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Natural Infrastructure means infrastruc-
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Natural Infrastructure means the usinge of a natural form and ecosystem function to restore or augment a project’s intended water quality benefits.
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Natural Infrastructure means the use of naturally occurring resources or the engineered use of natural resources to provide adaptation or mitigation to the gradual and/or sudden impacts of climate change or natural hazards or where these provide or impact services that are normally provided by infrastructure.
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Natural Infrastructure. ’ means infrastructure that uses, restores, or emulates natural eco- logical processes and—
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Natural Infrastructure means infrastructure that uses, restores, or emulates natural ecologi- cal processes and—
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